Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.
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To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
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[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves.
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The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease.
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Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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